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Nevada Solar Cancellation: 10 Days If You Are 60 or Older

Nevada gives solar buyers 3 business days to cancel — but 10 business days if you were 60 or older when you signed. Most homeowners never hear about this. Free...

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Nevada's cancellation window is three business days. But under NRS 598.982149, if the borrower was 60 or older at signing, the window is ten. That single sentence is the most underused consumer protection in the state.

If you signed a solar contract in Nevada and you were 60 or older at the time, you had ten business days to cancel instead of the three that everyone talks about. Most homeowners never hear this, because the sales process is designed around the shorter number and nobody volunteers the longer one.

This is an explainer, not legal advice. Whether a specific contract can be cancelled is a fact-specific legal question. What follows is what the Nevada statutes actually say.

The two windows, side by side

• Standard window — three business days. NRS 598.98216 gives a purchaser, lessee or power-purchase-agreement host customer the right to rescind or cancel without penalty by written notice delivered, mailed, telegraphed or emailed no later than midnight of the third business day after signing.
• Extended window — ten business days, if the borrower was 60 or older at signing. NRS 598.982149(1) sets the borrower's rescission window at three business days, or the tenth business day if the borrower is 60 years of age or older.

The age that matters is your age at signing, not your age today. So a homeowner who signed at 59 and is now 62 is still on the three-day clock for that transaction, while someone who signed the day after their sixtieth birthday gets the full ten.

Email counts, and that is more useful than it sounds

NRS 598.98216 expressly permits notice by email, and permits it to the email address printed on the contract cover page. That matters practically, because the most common way people lose a rescission right is not a legal problem — it is a delivery problem. A letter that arrives on day four, or a phone call nobody documented, is much weaker than a timestamped email.

If you are anywhere near the end of a window, send the notice in more than one way on the same day, keep the confirmation, and keep a copy of exactly what you sent.

The third window almost nobody mentions

NRS 598.982149(1) contains a third trigger: three business days measured from receipt of on-site survey results under NRS 598.982145. In plain terms, if a survey conducted after you signed would raise your price or change your equipment, that can open a fresh three-business-day window even after the original one has closed.

This is worth checking against your own file. Post-signing surveys that change the system design or the price are a recurring complaint pattern, and each one is a dated event that may have restarted the clock.

Why the senior window exists at all

Nevada has been unusually specific about protecting older homeowners in this market, and the enforcement record explains why. In one 2024 case, a contractor collected nearly $250,000 from eight vulnerable homeowners — most of them elderly — for work that was never performed, routinely demanding at least half the money upfront despite a state cap on pre-work payments. He was sentenced to 12 to 90 months (suspended), 36 months of probation, and $245,264 in restitution.

That upfront payment cap is itself a rule worth knowing: NRS 598.982185 bars any payment before the system receives permission to operate or passes final inspection, except a down payment of $1,000 or 10% of the contract price, whichever is less. If you were asked for substantially more than that before the system was producing, that is a documented deviation from the statute rather than a matter of opinion.

What to check in your own documents

• Your signing date, and your age on that date. Write both down.
• Whether a Notice of Cancellation form was provided, and what deadline it stated.
• Whether the cover page carried the required rescission notice in at least 16-point type under NRS 598.9809, along with the disclosure block in at least 10-point type.
• Whether the contract shows the contractor's licence number and the monetary limit on that licence, as NRS 624.875 requires.
• Whether any post-signing survey changed your price or equipment, and the date you received those results.
• Whether a recorded verification call was made at signing or within 48 hours, as NRS 598.98213 requires before installation may begin.

Do not stop making payments while you look into this. Missing payments can create default, collection and credit consequences, and raising a dispute does not automatically pause your obligation. Review your documents and get qualified advice first.

If the window has closed, there are still separate questions

A closed rescission window does not end the matter, because Nevada has independent grounds that do not depend on the three-or-ten-day clock at all. Under NRS 598.982148 and NRS 598.982143, an agreement is voidable for three years where the installer was unlicensed or acting outside the monetary limit of its licence, or where the financier failed to verify that licence and limit. That does not require proof that anyone lied — only the licence record on your signing date, which is publicly checkable.

Separately, NRS 598.9822 makes a knowing failure to comply with the state's distributed-generation disclosure rules render the agreement voidable, and provides that a violation constitutes consumer fraud for the purposes of NRS 41.600. And NRS 598.0903, the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, prohibits knowingly making false representations in a consumer transaction.

The short version

If you were 60 or older when you signed a solar contract in Nevada, you were entitled to ten business days to cancel, not three. If you are still inside that window, the most effective thing you can do today is send written notice by email to the address on your contract cover page and keep the timestamp. If the window has closed, the licence questions are usually the next place to look, and those turn on documents rather than on anyone's memory of the sales pitch.